Places shivalilaa Wants to Go

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

America's first public mental health facility.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An original apothecary from 1792.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.